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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

JUBILEE JUBILATION WEEK: A Grand Feast...

Jubilee Jubilation Week
is a special week I am hosting here, celebrating the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee - so expect a fun week of all things British!

What would a celebration be without a feast, right? Now, while it would be pretty cool if we could have our own little British tea party up here with itty bitty cucumber sandwiches, strawberries and cream and little scones with jam - sadly, we can't. So, instead of a feast for our bellies, why not hold a feast for your eyes? Yep - go ahead and feast your eyes on these gorgeous book covers...!

Beautiful British Book Covers! ...(All summaries from Goodreads)

Falling by Sharon Dogar

"Neesha is afraid - haunted by the fragments of a nightmare about a girl falling, far away and a long time ago.

Just when the echoes in her head threaten to overwhelm her, a boy unexpectedly comes to her rescue.

Handsome
and talented, Sammy finds himself strangely drawn to Neesha - but it's
only when they come together, that they begin to realise why.

Are they falling in love or being pulled into the past - fated to replay a love affair that ended in blood?"

Let's Get Lost by Sarra Manning

"Isabel is the girl who
rules the school with an iron fist and a gang of minions who do her
bidding. Her friends are scared of her, her teachers can't get through
to her, and that's just the way she likes it. With her razor-sharp edges
and tall walls, nothing gets to Isabel and no one, but no one, is ever
going to discover her dark, sad secrets. Then she meets Smith. And
Isabel learns that sometimes when all the expectations and pressures are
too much, you just need someone to help you get lost."

Flyaway by Lucy Christopher

"In this touching novel
for teenagers, Lucy Christopher explores the remarkable bond between a
young girl, a boy and a damaged wild bird - a relationship that will
touch everyone who reads it.

While visiting her father in
hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla meets Harry, the first boy to
understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as
his health fails, Isla is determined to help him in the only way she
knows how. Together they watch a lone swan struggling to fly on the lake
outside Harry's window. Isla believes that if she can help the damaged
swan, somehow she can help Harry. And in doing so, she embarks upon a
breathtakingly magical journey of her own."

Numbers by Rachel Ward

"Ever since she was
child, Jem has kept a secret: Whenever she meets someone new, no matter
who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head.
That number is a date: the date they will die. Burdened with such awful
awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Until she meets Spider, another
outsider, and takes a chance. The two plan a trip to the city. But while
waiting to ride the Eye ferris wheel, Jem is terrified to see that all
the other tourists in line flash the same number. Today's number.
Today's date. Terrorists are going to attack London. Jem's world is
about to explode!"

The Declaration by Gemma Malley

"It's the year 2140 and
Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society
can't sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never
have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange
Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have
kids--called surpluses--despite a law forbidding them from doing so.
These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they
must atone for their very existence. Then one day a boy named Peter
appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a
place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that
maybe people shouldn't live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape
with him, but Anna's not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose
version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar
walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every
waking thought?

Chilling, poignant, and endlessly though-provoking, The Declaration is a powerful debut that will have readers agonizing over Anna's fate until the very last page."

Sister, Missing by Sophie McKenzie

"It's two years after
the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for
sixteen-year-old Lauren, as exam pressure and a recent family tragedy
take their toll. Lauren's birth mother takes Lauren and her two sisters
on holiday in the hope that some time together will help, but a few
days into the holiday one of the sisters disappears, under circumstances
very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. Can
Lauren save her sister, and stop the nightmare happening all over again?"

Adorkable by Sarra Manning

"Jeane Smith is seventeen
and has turned her self-styled dorkiness into an art form, a lifestyle
choice and a profitable website and consultancy business. She writes a
style column for a Japanese teen magazine and came number seven in The
Guardian's 30 People Under 30 Who Are Changing The World. And yet, in
spite of the accolades, hundreds of Internet friendships and a cool
boyfriend, she feels inexplicably lonely, a situation made infinitely
worse when Michael Lee, the most mass-market, popular and predictably
all-rounded boy at school tells Jeane of his suspicion that Jeane's
boyfriend is secretly seeing his girlfriend. Michael and Jeane have
NOTHING in common - she is cool and individual; he is the golden boy in
an Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt. So why can't she stop talking to
him?"

I hope I've satisfied your hunger for beautiful book covers today!

And...

P.S. I also have it on good authority (i.e mine!) that, as well as being rather pleasing to the eye, these books are every bit as good on the inside as they look on the outside!

3 comments:

Love the covers. i was just wondering if you have twitter so I can follow you? I have just made one!!! @EbonyBlackLines :DAlso would you do me a favour? If you find any awesome competitions like the one you won would you tell me too? I'm always on the hunt for things to enter..especially if there are prizes! LOL x